JAR Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Severin Fowles

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Hibben Center for Archeology Research, Rm 105 | Albuquerque, NM

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Join us for the Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) lecture by archaeologist Dr. Fowles from Barnard College at Columbia University.
About this Event

The Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) is honored to welcome Dr. Severin Fowles, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, Chair of Anthropology, and Director of the Archaeology Track at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Dr. Fowles' title and topic of the lecture is yet to be determined so stay tuned for more information. That said, his work examines the images, landscapes, countercultures, religions, indigenous worlds, and colonial histories of the American Southwest. He also prioritizes collaborations with descendant communities, most recently with Picuris Pueblo and with the Comanche Nation.

Event is organized by JAR and co-sponsored by the UNM Department of Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.


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MEET DR. SEVERIN FOWLES

Dr. Fowles is an anthropologist whose scholarship combines archaeological methods with perspectives drawn from Critical Indigenous Studies, Art History, Religious Studies, and New Materialist Philosophy to reimagine the history of the American West. He has directed excavations at archaeological sites spanning ten thousand years—from the camps of early foragers, to Ancestral Pueblo villages, to a Spanish colonial plaza community, to a 1960s hippie commune.

He has also directed landscape surveys, including a decade-long rock art survey of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and an ongoing survey of late pre-colonial and early colonial agricultural systems, the latter conducted on behalf of Picuris Pueblo in support of their struggle to reclaim land and water. Increasingly, his research emerges through formal partnerships with descendant communities. In addition to Picuris Pueblo, he maintains various collaborations with the Comanche Nation as well as the Indo-Hispano community at San Antonio del Embudo, New Mexico.

His first book, An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion (School for Advanced Research, 2013), critically examines how secular understandings of “religion” have structured archaeological accounts of non-modern Indigenous communities. Alongside Barbara Mills, he also co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology (Oxford, 2017), the widest-ranging consideration of the intellectual history and theoretical commitments of archaeology in the American Southwest.

His current writing projects include a study of the Plains Biographic Tradition entitled Comanche Afterimages: Visual Culture and History in Northern New Mexico, a synthetic volume on ten thousand years of rock art production in the American Southwest entitled Iconohistory (co-authored with Darryl Wilkinson, Lindsay Montgomery, and Benjamin Alberti), and a volume on the history of settler colonialism in the little village of San Antonio del Embudo (under development with Chicano/a Studies scholar and poet, Levi Romero).

On campus, he directs the Archaeology Track in the Barnard Anthropology Department, and teaches both introductory and upper-level courses including "Indigenous Place-Thought," "American Material Culture," "Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America," and "Laboratory Methods in Archaeology." While away from campus during the summer, he directs Barnard's field program in New Mexico, which creates an opportunity for Barnard and Columbia students to learn methods of archaeological survey, excavation, and oral history while working in collaboration with descendant communities.

Learn more here.

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